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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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